Key Challenges of Managing Adaptation and Retrofit Projects
Published on 11. November 2014
124 pages
978-1-78441-614-0 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue of Structural Survey contains seven papers reporting on very interesting topics on managing adaptation and retrofit projects in Ghana, the US, Nigeria, the UK, Singapore and New Zealand. It seeks to highlight the specific adaptation challenges that project managers and other construction professionals in this sector need to respond to, and explores the dynamics between context (social, regulatory, technological, cultural etc.) competencies, and practices, and their impacts on navigating the challenges of major project delivery, as required for adaptation building projects.The regional spread of the papers reflects that the key challenges of project management in relation to building adaptation and retrofitting are as much a global phenomenon as they are location-specific, and therefore require an international knowledge management approach.
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Content
- Cover
- Editorial advisory board
- Guest editorial
- Exploration of building adaptations and retrofitting challenges in Ghana
- Architect's perception on the challenges of building energy efficiency in Ghana
- Expert knowledge elicitation for decision-making in home energy retrofits
- Assessing thermal comfort and energy efficiency in tropical African offices using the adaptive approach
- Comparative study of project management and critical success factors of greening new and existing buildings in Singapore
- An experimental study of moisture buffering of bio-insulations in lofts
- Economic impediments to successful seismic retrofitting decisions
